Re: People forging their From: addresses
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 16:40:54 MET-DST
>But surely the return from DNS here is not "No such domain" but "Timeout".
>Easily distinguishable surely?
In most of the instances I had to deal with, it was indeed "nonex
domain" or even the SOA for the up-stream TLD or a referral to Root.
The behaviour might be different depending on the accessibility of the
SOA record for the domain. I'm really not a DNS expert...
Wilfried.
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